Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Donec diluxit rerum genitalis origo? </s>
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              Quidve mali fuerat nobis non esse creatis? </s>
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              Natus enim debet quicumque est, velle manere
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              In vita, donec retinebit blanda voluptas.</s>
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              Qui numquam vero vitae gustavit amorem,
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              Nec fuit in numero; quid obest non esse creatum ? </s>
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              Exemplum porro gignundis rebus, & ipsa
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              Notities hominum divis unde insita primum,
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              Quid vellent facere ut scirent animoque viderent ? </s>
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              Quove modo est umquam vis cognita principiorum,
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              Quidnam inter sese permutato ordine possent ? </s>
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              Si non ipsa dedit specimen natura creandi ? </s>
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              Namque ita multa modis multis primordia rerum
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              Ex infinito iam tempore percita plagis,
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              Ponderibusque suis consuerunt concita ferri,
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              Omnimodisque coire, atque omnia pertemptare,
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              Quaecumque inter se possent congressa creare:
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              Ut non sit mirum si in talis disposituras
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              Deciderunt quoque, & in talis venere meatus,
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              Qualibus haec rerum geritur nunc summa novando.</s>
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              <s id="s.001301">Quod si iam rerum ignorem primordia quae sint,
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              Hoc tamen ex ipsis caeli rationibus ausim
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              Confirmare, aliisque ex rebus reddere multis,
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              Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse paratam
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              Naturam rerum: tanta stat praedita culpa.</s>
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              Principio, quantum caeli tegit impetus ingens,
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              Inde avidam partem montes, silvaeque ferarum
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              Possedere, tenent rupes, vastaeque paludes,
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              Et mare, quod late terrarum distinet oras.</s>
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              Inde duas porro prope partis fervidus ardor,
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              Adsiduusque geli casus mortalibus aufert.</s>
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              Quod superest arvi, tamen id natura sua vi
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